Betta's fungus treatment isn't helping. Could it be another ailment?

I have an adult male betta fish who usually lives alone in a ten-gallon tank with a filter, light and a lily plant. He got a cottony growth around his gills that I assumed was fungus or mouth fungus. I removed him to a five gallon hospital tank, added salt to make the water brackish (something I didn't know the importance of before), added Melafix(an antibiotic) and fungus clear(jungle laboratories brand 1/2tablet) to the water. I use either stress zyme or water safe plus to remove cholrine from tap water. The hospital tank has a heater and an air pump as well as places to hide but no light. He has been in for 2 weeks, I have swabbed his gills with provodine iodine twice out of water. Unfortunatley the cottony growth has NOT cleared up. Now he seems to have lost scales from his back. Otherwise he seems healthy. Swimming around boldly and no clamped fins. Could this be Ich or something else? How do I treat it? Help!

Betta's fungus treatment isn't helping. Could it be another ailment?
It's not Ich - it's definitely a fungus. Use Pimafix along with Melafix.
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Reply:It's not ich as that would inolve white dots ike salt grains. Melafix is a nice antiboitic for minor aliments, but I tend to recommend something stronger. This sounds like Columnaris which is a flexibacteria. Ideally I'd look for trisulfa. If you can't find trisulfa. Look on the back of the packages for anything that targets GRAM NEGATIVE bacteria. Also if you have any of the melafix left double the dose.



Other Meds:

jungle labs fungus eliminator (also targets bacteria)

marcyn plus

marcyn tc

marcyn II (not plain marcyn )